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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Bunyasi",
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        "legal_name": "John Sakwa Bunyasi",
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    "content": "would connect Nambale-Amukura-Malaba, linking up the interior areas from Siaya-Busia- Malaba has also not been mentioned. It must have been relegated in class and I have to see the full classification. We know that allocation of resources is going to be skewed towards roads that have the highest numbers from Class “A” down to Class “B”. Classes “E”, “F”, and “G” will not get as much allocation as the others would. There is going to be an inbuilt bias. If I look at the classification that has been done and the regions mentioned, I do not seem to see that there is consciousness that growth can come from any part of Kenya and contribute to employment growth for all Kenyans irrespective of where it is located as long as there are opportunities. To assume that tarmac roads should be in areas classified under the old White Highlands is a mistake and backward thinking. We should look at the many opportunities presented now even in dry areas. My worry is that in the initial classification, perhaps influenced by the people who were close to the committees that handled this, favoured areas in and around Nairobi. Many small roads are specifically numbered and named whereas roads that link many people and areas with the huge potential for growth such as those that I have mentioned in my constituency, have been left out. It is good that there is now clarity between roads for the national Government and the county governments. That is a step forward. However, the co-efficiency of how much you finance per kilometre to achieve the standard that has been defined has to be met. This has happened even in the health sector where the co-efficiency of financing to achieve the required standard is not the one that the Central Government used to provide nor is it the one that now the county governments provide. Do we want to cry for standards and certain outcomes which we cannot finance? I hope we will look at the transfer of resources to counties which will maintain the roads. The bulk of the road, in terms of distance, will go to the counties. The bulk of the roads will be county roads which will have minimal input from any of these national institutions. The funding will be coefficient so that it can achieve the standards which have been set here. It is useless to have rhetoric about the standards we want to achieve. We complain about contractors. However, if you look carefully, the resources allocation would never have met the standard that was meant to be achieved."
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